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by themafia 8mo ago
> you have the perfect recipe to undermine the public’s belief that government officials are working for the public good The public already does not believe this. Less than 25% approve of your work. > This legislation strengthens the
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by themafia 8mo ago
If you're just going to use software to judge the output of students then why don't we all just keep them at home? I have a computer at home and it seems like everyone from the teachers to the school board have just abdicated the
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by themafia 8mo ago
> It feels like you’re constantly fighting the language I disagree. I feel like I constantly understand precisely what the language is and is not going to do. This is more valuable to me than languages with 100 sigils that all invoke s
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by themafia 8mo ago
We support copyright reform not piracy. The reason we do is because corporate giants have weaponized the system for their own ends and not for our useful promotion of the arts and sciences. So.. I don't think it's appropriate fo
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by themafia 8mo ago
> the RIAA suits were not for downloading They were not all the same, some were fairly complicated cases, and one was undoubtedly for distribution. `The court’s instructions defined “reproduction” to include “[t]he act of downloading c
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by themafia 8mo ago
Then it's a questionable move to one day hand them _all_ the responsibility they had previously lacked. You can also ask if the rate of this occurrence is increasing or decreasing.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> should we simply ignore it and let the children turn out idiots as well? Just because you're an idiot at 18 doesn't mean you are one for life. > so that's why we designed schools that should compensate even for dumb p
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by themafia 8mo ago
> I actually believe increasing contrast for everyone improves the information density of our content. You used css to change the pointer. So instead of the I-Beam I had to use a regular pointer to select that text. Information density
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by themafia 8mo ago
More appropriately data has a temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta
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by themafia 8mo ago
> while actually helping parents with their issues. > that parents will set up the device for their kids Are the devices parents are currently setting up lacking these controls? Is there no third party software which can achieve this
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by themafia 8mo ago
> you can't be aggressive I disagree that this is "aggressive." It's certainly opinionated. I think the AI does a bad job here and I'm attempting to express that in a humorous and qualified way. > WTF? You
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by themafia 8mo ago
> towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. These people are deranged or a
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by themafia 8mo ago
> At least allow us to use names instead of numbers. Sure. Here's what that looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language
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by themafia 8mo ago
in spectrum.c > Address bits for pixel (x, y): > * 010 Y7 Y6 Y2 Y1 Y0 | Y5 Y4 Y3 X7 X6 X5 X4 X3 Which is wrong. It's x4-x0. Comment does not match the code below. > static inline uint16_t zx_pixel_addr(int y, int col) { It
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by themafia 8mo ago
> letting it be increasingly misclassified "No, it's the customers who are wrong."
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by themafia 8mo ago
That's absolutely what they are. That and other crimes. That's why they're mandatory, by law, in certain industries. That's _precisely_ why we started using them: to prevent the easily preventable. I suppose this lo
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by themafia 8mo ago
> they're not demanding that people proactively implement a system to prevent it from happening, are they? What do you think a "background check" is?
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by themafia 8mo ago
> but do not have even a theory about how the behavior emerges We fully do. There is a significant quality difference between English language output and other languages which lends a huge hint as to what is actually happening behind th
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by themafia 8mo ago
> The comments it offered were on the par of the best comments I’ve received on a paper in my entire academic career. Sort of the lowest hanging fruit imaginable. Just because it became "fundamental" to the process doesn'
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by themafia 8mo ago
> Change happens. The low level tool that has served to rescue more systems than I can count does not need to "change" simply because "it happens, bro." > while we can mechanistically You can rule it out with proc
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by themafia 8mo ago
The newest thing I've seen: "compostable - except in CA"
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by themafia 8mo ago
> Usa still don't even have universal social security It does though. There are several programs, some administered by the federal government, and some by the states. We don't have "single payer" but we absolutely
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by themafia 8mo ago
> to a declining, unstable empire It's funny that we've wrapped the clock all the way around and people don't see Europe as the declining and unstable empires anymore. > less like stable infrastructure It's perfect
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by themafia 8mo ago
The AWS registrar is actually not bad.
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by themafia 8mo ago
The original title: "Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardy Explained." > and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. So, Roger was the engineer. And, Jimi was the artist.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> Citizens don't want to pay for it. Yes. We do. We're literally screaming for it.
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by themafia 8mo ago
It can easily afford it. What the city can't seem to do is rid itself of corrupt employees and corrupt practices. These people talk a big game, but when it comes to basic office management, they're less than worthless. I wish I
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by themafia 8mo ago
> you know they're not interested in collecting Tax from their rich buddies. Right.. because.. they're busy trading favors with them. It's abuse of the public coffers.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> Why a hospital? Maternity is most often not "life and death." Is the maternity ward just a convenience? Or is the cost worth the benefit? You don't seem to be doing any form of honest analysis. > Most home applianc
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by themafia 8mo ago
There used to be 6 Walgreen's in my city. Now there are 2. I've used Amazon to fill some of that gap because the 30 minute drive is bonkers for toothpaste. COVID hit this economy like a Mack truck and helped the monopolists gra

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